Comment by Daison

This set is of course designed for Elemental Shaman, but it can also be pretty decent for healing as well. The sockets provide a great degree of flexability. You will also notice that there is a fairly good amount of MP/5 on many of these pieces. I believe this set was designed to support the idea of shamans casting lightning bolt for DPS, and having enough mana and regen to be able to do so for an extended period of time. The two piece bonus provides a fairly significant buff to the secondary and tertiary hits on chain lightning., but the 5 piece bonus is pretty weak.

There is also a different, more pvp oriented set of gear (Worldfire Chestguard, Mask of Inner Fire, etc) with more spellcrit and less mana regen.

Being all lvl 115 items these are only a small step below many of the lower tier epic items available.

Comment by rednok

Set bonuses are pretty horrible. Even an elemental shaman isn't going to be casting the mana hungry Chain Lightning very often in PVE and in PVP the benefit of CL is it's high damage and low cast time, the fact that it hits multiple targets is a distant third.

I don't think anyone needs to have the awfulness of the 4 piece bonus explained.

Compare the set bonuses to the ones on Desolation Battlegear to see what good set bonuses that really compliment the spec intended to wear the gear can look like.

Comment by Detton

The individual pieces aren't too bad, though. The 2-piece set bonus isn't completely wasted. Chances are, if you're working towards this set, at least a few pieces will be an upgrade for you. :)

Still would've preferred better set bonuses, but the parts will last me until I can get something better.

Comment by UnavoidableFate

What set should an enhancement Shaman pursue?

Comment by Keruza

The 2 part bonus on this set is rather decent and ok (playing Elemental/Resto specced). But the 4 part bonus is a bit... Me no like :(

But maybe just me who don't spam Water Shield 24/7

But it's an overall good set which I'm aiming to get full in (pretty nice and it's cool to have full sets, even if they are non-epic dungeon ones)

Comment by Meshara

Hey, I've been Elemental Spec from 10 to 70 and these are pretty nice. One I got Water Shield, I never used Lightning Shield again. It gives me around 130-140 mana right now and I have the Totem of the Thunderhead . With this set, It'll give me tons more mana when hit. I even usually reload it when all 3 orbs are gone and i'm still in battle. I find it very useful so this set is perfect. Plus, I use my Chain Lightning alot when questing and rep grinding.

Comment by DarianTruBlade

The Tidefury set may look subpar due to the lack of spell crit and iffy set bonuses. However, I did some math comparing the set to some similar items and found that it is very decent.

If you want equally strong items with slightly different statistics, consider the following items.

I used green gems for the sockets, most notably the +6 spell crit (Yellow), +3 spell crit +4 spell damage (orange) and +1 mp5 +3 Int (green) gems. For the Meta gem I assumed an Insightful Earthstorm Diamond. The listed stats are relative to the Tidefury piece they would replace.

Comment by Centrelink

Only think that is wrong with this set is that it has mana/5 instead of spell crit.

If those m/5 were spell crit, this set would be fantastic.

(Still good though, having 2 pieces can make a big diff)

Comment by Opaek

Gratz to Blizz on further gimping the 4 set bonus in patch 2.3 making it one of the weakest bonuses of any equivalent set. 60 extra mana per water shield makes this pointless for anything other than bg's, and even then a very minor bonus. Only the 2 set bonus can be considered worthwhile considering the quality of other items

Comment by Choitup

And the four piece gets stomped into the ground once again by the new reworking of water shield.

3 mp5 is hardly comparable to what it used to give.

Comment by renceste

its obviously for heal shamans or elemental shamans as of the high spell power bonuses